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Show f Candidate . . . s 5 ; v v V I ( V j 1 f " v'v I i r i 1 1 X r v . Elisha Warner, Payson publisher, who lias filed for the Democratic nomination of State Senator from Utah county. ELISHA WARNER FILES FOR STATE SENATOR Elisha Warner, well known publisher pub-lisher of Spanish Fork and Pay-son, Pay-son, Tuesday filed for the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination as state senator sena-tor from Utah county. Mr. Warner, served in the House of Representatives during the last term of the Utah state legislature. He was active as a member of the revenue and taxation committee and was intrumental .in the enactment enact-ment of laws . which brought the Utah revenue setup in conformity with the federal statutes. He was also a member of the corporations, fish and game, manufacturing and commerce, public printing, and reference ref-erence committees of the house. For the past thirty-five years Mr. Warner has been active in the newspaper publishing field in Utah county, during nearly all that time being publisher of the Spanish Fork Press in his native city. He moved to Payson last February, where he took over the duties of publisher of ffie Payson Chronicle. He has served for many years as a member of the executive committee commit-tee of the Utah State Press association asso-ciation and in 1940 was elected its president. Mr. Warner has always been an active church worker. He served as bishop of the Spanish Fork Second Sec-ond ward for over ten years; he was a missionary in the Northern States, served as a ward clerk, stake superintendent of Religion class, and held a number of other positions in his church. "I have no particular axe to grind in seeking a position in the state legislature," Mr. Warner says. "I am not pledged to support or represent any particular group of citizens. I have no desire to use the legislature as a springboard to land a political job. I am interested only in seeing that all citizens get a fair deal in legislation and propose pro-pose to support only such laws as will be to the best interests of the people of Utah." |